Thursday, August 1, 2013
July 24, 2013
One of those days when you do nothing particularly wonderful, but everything you do is wonderful.
July 23, 2013
So, the doctor called with the results to my delayed-response food allergy test and it turns out what I thought was "comfort food" on an irritated stomach may have been the irritation all along: oatmeal and cranberries.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
July 18, 2013
This is the lesson I learn again and again, a lesson worth learning, a lesson I love: our connectedness with people is the reason we live.
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
July 16, 2013
"I think sometimes when we have problems with a character trait in someone, regardless of who it is, we often appreciate the root of the trait, just not the expression of it."
-conversation with a muy bueno friend
-conversation with a muy bueno friend
Monday, July 15, 2013
July 10, 2013
So, last time we went to this phlebotomist she was incredibly curt and short-tempered, even shooing us out of her office since we unwittingly came unprepared...but today, when I came with the kit she needed, she baby-talked to me, told me I made her day with my big veins, and deliberately didn't answer the phone when it rang in order to attend to my blood; it is amazing how differently people treat each other upon their immediate appraisal of the situation.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Saturday, July 6, 2013
July 3, 2013
Saw gorillas up close and personal today...they're eerily humanlike, except we're wimpier.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
July 2, 2013
Sometimes it's better to examine and come to an erroneous conclusion than not examine at all.
July 1, 2013
Waking up from smiling sleep and finding the world that meets you is just as lovely as your dreams: What peace feels like.
Thursday, June 27, 2013
June 27, 2013
What the world needs now is not love, sweet love, but chairs that won't kill short people's knees because they dangle all day, killing cartilage and sitting stamina and happiness.
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Monday, June 24, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
June 22, 2013
I was loved once, really loved: "It is a fact of life that you will not go unnoticed...you are infectious."
Thursday, June 20, 2013
June 20, 2013
I want to live among trees, white-barked and deep green, burgundy, orange, yellow in autumn, cool and wise and welcome, I want to live among trees.
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Monday, June 17, 2013
June 17, 2013
I didn't think it was a terrible thing to mention that you know you are good at something until everyone turned to look at me and my face turned red.
June 16, 2013
The best thing my dad ever did for me was instill my foundational life motivation: to always improve myself.
June 14, 2013
Evening hours are not the same as daytime hours (aka, I will not grade at all if I put it off 'til Friday night and do the fun things during the day instead).
Friday, June 14, 2013
June 13, 2013
Don't be the third beer: not the one they drink because they're thirsty, not the one they drink to get drunk, the one they drink just because it's there.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
Sunday, June 9, 2013
June 9, 2013
"If your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you, and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things."
-D&C 88:67
-D&C 88:67
Friday, June 7, 2013
June 7, 2013
Summer: when every day is Friday....so that's why it's okay for me to be holed up on campus on a Friday night, right?
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
June 4, 2013
Did anyone else raise their eyebrow when they read on the back of the menu at Mimi's Cafe that the founder is a former WWII soldier stationed in Paris who fell in love with Parisian cafes and a "captivating mademoiselle who went by Mimi"?
Monday, June 3, 2013
June 3, 2013
Feeling two of the best things today: 1) helping people, and 2) hope hope hope hope hope.
Friday, May 31, 2013
Thursday, May 30, 2013
May 29, 2013
There are lots of ways to make new friends, but apparently my strategy is to find someone as ostracized as I am.
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Sunday, May 26, 2013
May 26, 2013
When God or His prophets tell us to remember, it's usually to remember what He has done for people, or to remember the sacrifices people have made for Him.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
May 11, 2013
Lots of sentences today, but they describe my feelings exactly: "In the temple we face the sunlight of truth. The light of the temple, that understanding, shines upon us as does the light of the sun. And the shadows of sin and ignorance and error, of disappointment and failure, fall behind us. Nowhere quite equals the temple."
Boyd K. Packer, The Holy Temple
Boyd K. Packer, The Holy Temple
Saturday, May 11, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
May 9, 2013
No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.
-Source Unknown
-Source Unknown
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
May 8, 2013
My heartburn today is making me wonder: Is there psychological/emotional acid reflux--a burn as emotional acids escape the body?
May 7, 2013
Heaven on Earth: Four hours in the temple (it is the only place I understand who I am meant to be)!
May 2, 2013
Today was a combination of the worst and best things in my life: Fistulas are most unpleasant, but visits from Mike make them less awful.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
April 30, 2013
Apparently, in order to emotionally survive my two dance classes, I must put the "social" in social dance (*cough* making stupid jokes suddenly made it all palatable).
April 27, 2013
After receiving my endowments, I had two thoughts: 1) All my life I've been learning about learning, but this was the learning itself; 2) I suddenly feel anchored, complete--and I didn't know I was so lacking before.
April 26, 2013
Inventory of fantastic commentary directed at me lately:
"I received your voice message that you left for me on Friday. I'm sorry I wasn't here to speak with you in person--you leave a delightful message."
A grandma upon meeting me: "Ooooh--you're pretty!"
"You're one of my favorite people; I'm glad we finally have a class together."
"I love you."
"I received your voice message that you left for me on Friday. I'm sorry I wasn't here to speak with you in person--you leave a delightful message."
A grandma upon meeting me: "Ooooh--you're pretty!"
"You're one of my favorite people; I'm glad we finally have a class together."
"I love you."
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013
After being marooned in my ex-apartment due to waiting for a 10:30 Humira delivery requiring a signature that finally arrived at 5:32, I have allllllllmost completed my entire teaching portfolio.
April 21, 2013
Confusing, overreacting, meeting/introducing, conversing, eating, driving, talking: today was a day and a half.
April 20, 2013
Trains, which are made with convenience in mind, ruin plans (again and again and again).
April 19, 2013
I took the plunge: I asked a professor to chair my thesis . . . wish they had a handbook on this sort of thing.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Monday, April 8, 2013
April 7, 2013
Twice I've gone to Temple Square to try and get into the Conference Center; twice I've watched from the Tabernacle: a bigger screen than at home (but further away), and substituted couch for wooden bench...one day I'll get tickets and get in for realz!
April 5, 2013
Today is my best friend's birthday, and so I give her this day's sentence as tribute and exultation and celebration.
Friday, April 5, 2013
April 4, 2013
Today's thinking: Go into every application process knowing you'll get the job: write your best coverletter, shine in your resume, and enjoy it all--you'll get a lot of jobs this way, and then you won't mind so much when you don't get some others.
Thursday, April 4, 2013
April 3, 2013
Day of bests: best friends, best foods, best boyfriend coming and spending best time: together. =)
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
April 2, 2013
Today is a day to go down in (my) history with joy, water-eyes, awe, bursty-feelings: I got my temple recommend!
Monday, April 1, 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
February 27, 2013
Never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but I cry good tears a lot these days and I like it.
February 25, 2013
I survived the last two weeks; today I watched Steel Magnolias in my bed to celebrate.
Monday, February 25, 2013
February 24, 2013
I don't want the mediocrity of life to overcome the glory I experienced on Friday, but suddenly I'm faced with another week of school ahead.
February 23, 2013
So, somehow I slept 22 hours this weekend (I'm chalking it up to my complete lack of sleep all week in anticipation of Anthony Doerr).
February 22, 2013
Today I spent all day with my writing idol (I really need to come up with a new phrase--it sounds too obsessed and too inaccurate and to Justin Beibery) and I have never been happier or more in awe in my life.
February 21, 2013
As of today, I have been hanging around this world for a quarter of a century, and you know, it's not half bad. =)
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
February 20, 2013
Sometimes I camp out in the same armchair in the library so long that when I walk up the stone steps to finally leave my calves cramp.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
February 17, 2013
"[Trials] take root in our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities, our sensitivities, or in those things that matter most to us."
-Neil L. Anderson, "Trial of Your Faith"
-Neil L. Anderson, "Trial of Your Faith"
February 16, 2013
I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough, I am enough.
February 15, 2013
So, after subbing three different classes today, I think I can safely say I don't get nervous in classes when I am the teacher, only when I am a student.
Friday, February 15, 2013
February 13, 2013
Well, Mormons (ones I see almost daily, professionally and as friends) read about my sins today (and then critiqued it all) (and I will continue to see them daily for a long time).
February 12, 2013
Every time I crave a hamburger, it's because I haven't eaten one in months, and every time I haven't eaten one in months it's because every time I eat one I get intensely sick (so good call on making today one of those reminder days...).
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
February 11, 2013
I've realized that when I express my frustration/anger/concerns/negativity/overwhelmedness/complaints/what have you to someone else, I will feel heard and understood and empathized with, but it comes at a huge cost: the black moths of discontent embedded in me flutter from my chest and over to lodge themselves inside my listener . . . and there is still a limit to my happiness when the people that matter most to me are then unhappy because they've offered to share my unhappiness.
February 9, 2013
If you never push through obstacles and instead take your insecurities as truth, you'll never feel this kind of on top of the wooooooorld!
Thursday, February 7, 2013
February 7, 2013
Murphy's Law says it is my (sarcastic, blunt, impatient) little brother who will be the one to go on a date with a girl who says (while watching Les Mis, and in response to his "Wow--I didn't know Wolverine could sing"): "I don't know who Wolverine is; I've never seen Batman."
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
February 5, 2013
Sleeping in public is a sort of shame that can only be overcome by repeated practice.
Monday, February 4, 2013
Friday, February 1, 2013
February 1, 2013
On this, the first day of the Month of Love, my sentence to you is a challenge: Every day, act in Love--to those you love and those you will yet love.
January 31, 2013
The bruise I'm tending on my right flank is now flowering into the shape of a smeared blue, blackened bow, a reminder of what a gift the slick stone stairs can be.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
January 29, 2013
There is nothing that makes everything in your life better faster and more fully than a nap.
January 28, 2013
Wouldn't it be great to have a brat check button right next to the spell check button?
Monday, January 28, 2013
January 26, 2013
I think the world should go back to polymathy as the ideal, embracing Alberti's idea that "a man can do all things if he will"; shouldn't we all aspire to be a Renaissance man/woman?
January 25, 2013
As a teacher, there is always more to be done--which is exhausting and exciting and job security.
Friday, January 25, 2013
January 24, 2013
Freezing rain gives new meaning to the old Irish blessing, "May the road rise up to meet you."
January 23, 2013
Sitting in the balcony while watching a play sounds very romantic and nostalgic, but it turns out it mostly just feels like you've illegally imposed, unwanted--it felt like the time I had an out of body experience and watched my seizing body from the vantage point of the ceiling . . . detached, ignored, inconsequential . . . we were a third-cousin-once-removed type of audience.
January 22, 2013
Today was full of surprises (good, bad, in between): the surprise of an AWESOME lesson plan turning into a bunch of dead time (aka, the bad surprise); the surprise of being in SLC when Mike got off work (chyeah--the good surprise); the surprise of expecting to leave campus at 11:30 a.m. and instead leaving at 4 (in between: less assignments accomplished than I thought but also snuck in a work out).
January 21, 2013
Pity to all those employed people whose employers don't recognize all the government-recognized holidays.
Monday, January 21, 2013
January 20, 2013
"When I think about the Savior, I want to live in such a way that not one more drop of His blood has my name on it."
-Sister Peterson, BYU 7th Stake Relief Society President, 94th Ward conference
-Sister Peterson, BYU 7th Stake Relief Society President, 94th Ward conference
Friday, January 18, 2013
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
January 15, 2013
None of my today's thoughts, but take some of essayist Alexander Smith's: "We argue fiercely about happiness."
Monday, January 14, 2013
January 12, 2013
She said I kill everything I get my fingers on, and already the dove has died, Goldy is flushed, the neighbors took over my dog, Frank left last week, and dammit I just burned the eggs this morning--so no, Jade Plant #37, not you too.
-Exercise
-Exercise
Saturday, January 12, 2013
January 10, 2013
I took my chances with the slushy snowed hill, figuring my cowboy boots were hardy enough, but when I somehow slipped and fell, flying upward (I got some serious air--think hidden trampoline) and all I could see were the triangle tips of my boots against the backdrop of the dark snowing sky, in that suspended moment, I knew five things: 1) my boots are no match for The Hill 2) I am in a dress 3) there is one solitary pedestrian walking up The Hill toward me 4) that pedestrian is male and 5) thank heavens I am in black black (with gray polka dots) tights.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
January 9, 2013
My friend printed an 8x11 black-and-white of Anthony Doerr, my writing idol, for me to hang at my desk and now I can just slightly shift my gaze from my work computer to the strip of corkboard waiting just behind and catch the piercing of his grayscale eyes and wonder what lies behind them, where his genius stories begin...and wonder about my own.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
January 8, 2013
What is it that makes a muscle (say, oh, a glute) twitch repeatedly, in this case very reminiscent of a horse's flanks on a cold autumn morning--making wearing leggings very awkward?
Monday, January 7, 2013
January 7, 2013
First day of a new semester always makes the corners of my smile rush up to squeeze my eyes.
January 6, 2013
Just when you think you're invincible, look closely for the chink in your armor...because it is there, no matter how small, no matter how quiet.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
January 5, 2013
After scrutinizing and tweaking my teaching syllabus and schedule for the majority of the day, the upcoming semester is on my mind...the upcoming semester that will be better better better than last semester: I will be taking creative classes and therefore will finally feel like I am doing what I came here to do; I will be not quite as baby-fawn-ish at teaching 150 (meek, stumbly, frightened); I will be not alone (well equipped with 1. the best friend of my life and 2. the boyfriend and relationship that is exciting, enjoyable, filling, and worth it plus 3. I know a few people 'round this ol' place now); I will be interning and learning how to teach a new and awesome course; I will no longer be in my first semester; oh and it's my quarter-century during this round (but I'm not sure if that fact really counts as highly among the rest...).
January 4, 2013
You can always tell how much a person means to you by the amount of leaping in your chest upon reunion.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
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